Tuesday, June 8

My first real day. . . Two of the librarians, Christine and Cheri, presented an informational session for the summer Geri students. "Geri" is an abbreviation of Geriactrics. The students are “Geriatric Summer Scholars” – they come from med schools all over the country to work with a faculty member from the Johns Hopkins Bayview geriatrics department for the summer. The session ran from 9-12 and included information about the library including after hours access, library barcode for book checkout, website access, and ILL. The presentation included searching techniques and hands on (the session took place in a computer lab not in the library) practice with the following databases: PubMed, embase, PyscInfo, ISI (Web of Knowledge, Web of Science) and SCOPUS. ISI and SCOPUS are included the presentation as "Who is Citing You?". This was followed by a presentation of RefWorks. Each student also received a packet of the hard copies of the ppt presentations (me, too:). Basic searching information, but a really nice and helpful review for me. Two different teaching styles, but both very effective.